Watery Wednesday: Raritan River

After visiting the Native Plant Reserve in Highland Park, I went to the riverside and took some photos of the river. In this photo you can see the bridge for trains (thanks, Cosmic X) that go past College Campus of Rutgers University, over the river, and through the edge of Highland Park and Edison. I’m hoping to photograph the train tracks in a future post.
See Google Maps to see where this is.

I then turned and faced into the sun and photographed the bridge that leads from Highland Park into New Brunswick. The bridge is at the end of Raritan Avenue.

Here’s the same Route 27 bridge; you can see a bit of the office buildings in New Brunswick in this photo (I think that may be the Hyatt Hotel and further back, some condominiums).

The first bridge is actually for trains. The second one is the Rt. 18 Bridge, which I remember being built. There is, or used to be, another bridge that connected New Brunswick with the Busch Campus. It was old and rickety back then, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s gone.

Cosmic X, you are right about the first one. The first bridge is for trains. I didn’t get a picture of the Route 18 bridge, which is new and further down. I’m going to correct my post about the first one. The one you talked about is gone, replaced by the spanking new one, not in this post.

That link to Google Maps helped. I old rickety bridge was Landing Ln. There was a point in time where I was living on the “wrong side of the tracks”, that is to say in the Cedar Lane apartments. Why was that the wrong side of the tracks? Because in order to get to Edison or Highland Park we had to cross those train tracks, which was a somewhat dangerous endeavor.